Garment



Dec. 2 1947. I '5, K -r 2,431,809

GARMENT Filed Oct. 26, 1945 INVENTOR.

STEPHANIE 0. KORE'T -BY Patented Dec. 2, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE GARMENT Stephanie DianaKoret, San Francisco, Calif. ApplicationOctober '26, 1945, Serial No. 624,733

3 Claims. 1

This invention relates to womens garments in general which employ anelastic waistband or elastic neckband or the like and particularly to acombined blouse and halter type of garment incorporating such an elasticband'portion.

The principal object of the invention is to provide improvements inwomen's garments incorporating elastic bands whereby more adjustment ofthe parts may be had than formerly, and particularly whereby a singlegarment such as a blouse may be converted to a halter.

Other features and advantages ofthe invention will appear in thefollowing description and in the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 i a front view of a womans blouse shown slightly in perspective,and which incorporates some of the features of my invention, and

Fig. 2 is a reduced size view of the blouse of Fig. 1 shown partiallytransformed to a halter.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to that of Fig. 2 showing the completetransformation of the blouse.

Fig. 4 shows a small portion of the lower end of the garment modifiedwith respect to the lower end of the garment of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 i a side elevation showing the precrimping treatment to which thehem of the garment is subjected.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged cross sectional detail taken along the lin 6--6 ofFig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a View like that of Fig. 6 showing a modification.

In further detail the figures show at I the body of a womans blouse witha ruffled or crimped neckband 2 and a ruffled or crimped waistband 3,and in the present illustration the garment is shown formed with veryshort sleeves 4 but which may be made of any length or omitted insofaras the present invention is concerned, and like blouses generally, thegarment is made full and easy fitting for the particular wearer.

Both the neckband and waistband are made tubular as by relatively deephemming or equivalent and each contains an elastic band.

In the waistband the elastic band is designated 5 and is of endlessconstruction, either prefabricated as an endles elastic band of theusual elastic construction containing textile materials combined withrubber strands, or of plain rubber or the like, or the elastic band maybe made endless from an ordinary strip of elastic tape overlapped at itsends and the ends sewed together as indicated at 6 in Fig. 1 where thehem of the garment is broken away to show the endless elastic band.

A feature of importance is that the waistband hem is thickly shirred orcrimped as at 3' so that it may be pulled outward considerably, and theelastic band 5 within it is perfectly free of any attachment to thehemorgarment so that the shirrs may be bodily moved about relative to oron the band to bring most of them in front or at any other point whereextra fullness is desired. Besides this, the shirrs are preferablypreformed under pressure and heat, preferably before the garment iscompleted. This may be don by sliding the hem of the fiat goods over aloosely fitting flat bar 1 (see Fig. 5), and against a stop block 8,while taking care to have the shirring 3' thus produced substantiallyuniform, and then forcing the shirrs all tightly together as by asliding collar 9 and securing it in place on the rod as by a hand screwIll. The shirring may also be done on a hot fiuting machine, andsimilarly clamped on the rod.

After the shirring is clamped tightly on the bar 1 as described, it issteamed to heat and moisten it, and then dried thoroughly beforeremoving from the rod. This treatment insures an even attractive resultand in which the shirring will open and close along the preformed creaselines with an accordion ffect. The shirring may also be done on a hotfiuting machine, and similarly clamped on the rod.

The neckband'is also a tubular hem with "an elastic'within, that is madesomewhat differently as the shirring 2' extends about the front andsides of the neck opening onlyfor about half the circumference ofthe'neckband, while the rear half substantially as comes within thelength designated by the arrows on Fig. 1 is not shirred and preferablydoes not contain an elastic band. The elastic band in the forwardportion of the neck band is dotted in Fig. 1 at l3 and it terminates atthe side of the neck adjacent the center of the shoulder and is'sewed inplace at its ends asby stitching l2, [2.

The strip of elastic l3 which extends through the shirred portion of theneckband is elastic enough to permit easy stretching of the front sideof the neckband substantially to the bottom of the garment, and theelastic band 6 of the waistband is of similar grade. But the rear halfof the neckband is limited in flexibility to that of the goods so thatit will preferably stretch Very little if any between the pointsembraced by the arrows of Fig. 1.

To complete the garment a long ribbon I5 is provided which may simply bepassed vertically inside of the central front of the blouse and the freeouter ends of the ribbon respectively be brought over the top of theneck and forwardly around the under edge of the garment and tiedtogether in front, preferably in a bow knot, so as to draw the frontneckband downward and the front lower hem upward to any degree as to theposition shown in Fig. 2 or to the position shown in Fig. 3, or anypoint between.

To maintain the ribbon centrally disposed with the neckband a slot orbuttonhole l6 may be provided through the front wall of the blouseadjacent the lower line of the neck hem 2 and the ribbon passed throughand brought forward over the top of the neck bank as shown in Figs. 6and 1 and thus surround both the neckband hem as well as the elasticstrip l3 within it, or the slot or buttonhole may be vertically disposedas at I? in Fig. 7 in the forward side only of the neckband hem, and theribbon passed in and around the elastic strip l3 only and out again asshown in Fig. 7.

- With either arrangement of Figs. 6 or 7 the ribbon is then preferablytied in a simple knot l9 at the front of the neck before passing one enddown inside of the blouse as dotted at 15' in Fig. 2 to come out aroundthe lower hem of the blouse and tie to the other end of the ribbon intoa bow knot l8 either at the lower part of the front of the blouse, or atthe neck as at 18' in Fig. 1 or at any point between,

The amount of drawing together of the ribbon ends before tying the knotdetermines whether the final effect is that of Fig. 2 or 3, produced bystretching the elastic bands in both the lower hem and front portion ofthe neck hem, or whether the ribbon is merely tied in a bow at the neckas in Fig. 1 without passing around the upper and lower elastic bands todraw them more or less together.

The shiftability of the pre-creased shirring around the waistband is ofparticular importance when the garment is adjusted in the form of ahalter as shown in Fig. 3 in order to insure a fully ruffled margin onthe two upwardly slanted lower front edges.

In Fig. 4 is shown a variation of the shirring of the hem 3 enclosingthe elastic band 5, and in which showing the goods is extended beyondthe lower edge of the hem in the form of flounces 2! While I show andprefer a ribbon l as the flexible strip for drawing the neck openingdown and the lower end of the garment upward, it is evident that it maybe a tape, string, lace, strip of chamois, leather, flat chain, or anysimilar flexible device, and any such device is intended to be coveredin my claims.

Having thus described my improvements in an elastic hemmed womansgarment what I claim l. A womans garment for the upper portion of thebody provided with a shirred neckband with an elastic band thereinnormally substantially contracted, also a shirred waistband with anelastic band therein normally substantially contracted, a flexible tiestrip arranged at the front of the garment in a manner for drawing thefront center of the neckband down and the front center of the waistbandup toward one another and holding them in such position, and an openingat the front of the neckband passing said tie strip so that the stripmay be passed over the neckband and its contained elastic band.

2. A woman's garment for the upper portion of the body provided with ashirred neckband with an elastic band therein normally substantiallycontracted, also a shirred waistband with an elastic band thereinnormally substantially contracted, a flexible tie strip arranged at thefront of the garment in a manner for drawing the front center of theneckband down and the front center of the waistband up toward oneanother and holding them in such position, and an opening at the frontof the neckband arranged for said tie strip to pass into the neckbandaround the elastic band and out for tying in front.

3. A womans garment for the upper portion of the body provided with ashirred neckband with an elastic band therein normally substantiallycontracted, also a shirred waistband with an elastic band thereinnormally substantially contracted, a flexible tie strip arranged at thefront of the garment in a manner for drawing the front center of theneckband down and the front center of the waistband up toward oneanother and holding them in such position, and said tie strip passingthrough an opening at the neckband around the elastic band and one endpassing downward within the garment and upward over the lower edge ofthe waistband and tied in use to the other end of the tie strip at thefront of the garment.

STEPHANIE DIANA KORET.

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